Anatoly Beloglazov

Anatoly Alexeyevich Beloglasow, Russian Анатолий Алексеевич Белоглазов, ( born September 16, 1956 in Kaliningrad ) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1980 in Moscow in free style flyweight.

Career

Anatoli Beloglasow grew up in Kaliningrad and began with his twin brother Sergei with the rings. Both athletes developed since they were immensely talented and diligent workout, excellent and have been delegated by the first major successes in the field of youth sports club Dynamo Kiev. There they were trained by the young ambitious granite Taropin and in a short time in the world's elite in free style. Anatoli was always lighter than Sergei, so he struggled to get to go out of the way, always a weight class lower than Sergei. First, the paper weight and flyweight.

In the junior level Anatoli Beloglasow was somewhat more successful than Sergei, as he was in 1974 in Haparanda in Sweden Junior European Champion in paper weight before the Bulgarians Nermedin Selimow and 1975 in Haskovo also Junior World Champion in the paper weight again before Nermedin Selimow and always in free style.

In contrast to his brother Sergei, who was only in 1979 that his first appearance at an international championship in the seniors Anatoli Beloglasow managed this jump already in 1976. In Leningrad he was this year with four victories early European champion in paper weight. He suggested the possibility the young Italian Claudio Pollio, which should be a really big one in Ringer sport more as well.

His first world title Beloglasow fought in 1977 in Lausanne paper weight. He passed around five victories. In the final he defeated the physically very strong South Koreans Kim Kyung - Hwa sure on points.

1978 Beloglasow was in Mexico City World Champion again, but this time flyweight. There he met once in the first round of the Japanese Olympic champion of 1976 and three -time world champion Yuji Takada, defeating these on points. After this sensational victory, he also beat his other opponents, including Hartmut Reich of the German Democratic Republic and was deservedly world champion.

At the World Cup 1979 in San Diego, there was the big rematch between Beloglasow and Yuji Takada. This time, Yuji Takada turned the tables and defeated Beloglasow to which it met the same in the 1st round again, certainly on points. Since Anatoli also lost to the Americans James Haines, he retired after the third round and finished only 6th place.

At the Olympic Games in 1980 Beloglasow succeeded with six victories winning the Olympic gold medal. Since his brother Sergei a day later also achieved this, the brothers Beloglasow were the first pair of twins in the world, the Olympic champion in the Olympic Games in the same year.

In 1982, Anatoly was in Edmonton after he was with no international championships at the start in 1981, for the second time world champion. The special thing about it was that this happened in the bantamweight, so a weight class higher than it usually ranking. But even in this weight class he dominated his opponents. He defeated at this World Cup, inter alia, also the Japanese ex world champion Hideaki Tomiyama.

While Sergei Beloglasow his career continued until 1988 and this year for the second time Olympic champion, Beloglasow ended his career in 1984 after being there could not start because of the boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In 1983, he became only third at the World Championships in Kiev, so in his hometown, after defeats against the new superstar flyweight Valentin Yordanov of Bulgaria and the Japanese composer Toshio Asakura.

Anatoli Beloglasow graduated in Moscow a coach training and has since worked in Russia as a wrestler trainer. As the successor to his brother Sergei, he is currently coach of the Russian freestyle team. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2010 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Achievements

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = Flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, then until 48 kg, 52 kg and 57 kg body weight)

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